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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 12, 1940.

NEWS FROM AMERICA by Robert Waithman

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Ithink it will become neces- sary for the United States to fight. More people are ready to accept the view that America can safely and

the United Press Axociations, who re-honourably stay out. serve all rights and forbid repubilcation, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Guns For Butter

Dr. Ley-whose name is pro-

the German workers.

British

News Chronicle New York. Correspondent, who has just been elected President of the Association of Foreign Press Corres- pondents in the U.S.A.

Support, Unless..

That's how we got it in the neck the last time (Chicago Sunday Tribune)

werd some

IAM no sure as I have ever been of anything action. But they that this, the sensation of moral would not, for let-down, is behind, for example, what is troubl- the new results from the Gallup ing them most polls. Instead of, ns at the be deeply is not ginning of the war, a majority the luck of belief that America will be action but the drawn into the war, there is now. lack of direc a slight majority, bellef that tion.

America won't come in, ·: Where- Ameri- as at the beginning of the war for all 44 per cent, of voters were in oratory favour of joining Britain and proiesta France if or when Germany Lions of self-

appeared to be winning, only 29 interest, arc

The

cons,

their and

men and women per cent, would do so now, who think and The Germans are pretty sure feel very much to ascribe these changes to

38 British

people think their propaganda. But in fact and feel, and it German propaganda so far has be their misfired at every `point. The romote Athenia story and the Iroquois ness and their story were epic propaganda determined neu- failures, and even the deluge of trality that put

may very

them in a posi- stories and picturea sent liere tion to see the to demonstrate the invincibility confused scene of the Nazi legions in Poland in better

per- did more barm than good. Nazis spective..

scem incapable of realising WHAT many articulate that American minds do not Americans are now work as their own minds work, "news and other informa- tion," then I think the

saying and what many more are and that Americans, so far from Government. is

admiring demonstrations Of wrong.

feeling without being able to put

might, are instinctively drawn. German propaganda here is

the feeling into words is some to the under-dog. failing, and if the Govern thing like this: "Here is a

German propaganda has failet ment is now proposing to turning point for the world, a here because it has proceeded· of moment too big for anything on the assumption that Ameri- output

of millions of people in the mind as they were during the.

The truth is that

ality could accept and aspire to,

ernment noticed what-

A QUESTION put by attempt the

Mr. George Ridley counter-propaganda, bat honesty. The hope of tens cans are in the same stats of nounced like the English word in the House of Commons whether it calls it that or British Empire, in all democratic last war, "lie" has recently been boast and the reply Sir Edward not, it will be, in my opinion, countries and in all frightened twenty years of intensive home against ing that the German Labour Grigg made to it

seem to inviting a failure ten times small countries, is in the British propaganda directed

as great.

Government. If now it would foreign propaganda has changed Front, of which he is the leader, show that the

Americans from a people who The present change in set before the world a plan for would believe everything to a MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. his cured unemployment in Ger- Government is aware of this American feeling has little a just peace and a way of life people who will believe nothing.

many and improved the lot of change in American senti-

that every man of every nation- or nothing to do with pro- ment. But it seems also paganda. It seems to me if it would commit itself boldly It is perhaps unfortunate that that the Government is it is explained by a sense to fight and work for a defined HAS the British Gov- this claim should synchronise attributing what is happen- of moral frustration which new order, those tens of millions happened to Mr. Duff Cooper on with the substitution of a ten-ing to the success here of has come over this country of peoples would rise in gratitude his arrival here? He gave an hour for an eight-hour day; but German propaganda and within the last few weeks. and follow the British lead. But interview in which he expressed Mr. George Hicks, MP., has not the lack of publicity for the Everybody is beginning to there is no plan. There is only the conviction that a revolution

manoeuvring and smart-dip-staged by Conservative elements- British point of view. Sir show it. Senators and

lomacy, evasion and uncertainty, will break out in Germany, Edward Grigg promised Congressmen, writers and All the British Government says. If any British Cabinet Minis- to broadcasters and the man is that it must end Hitlerism, ter had made such a public pro- secure the largest measure you meet in the drug store of course, it must end a system phecy during the last war the of publicity in the United or office corridor or hotel which bullies, persecutes and fact would have been recorded States" on the British war elevator.

deforms a nation and threatens liberally across the front pages. But the competent "New York effort.

They don't all know what every other nation. But there Times" gave Mr. Duff Cooper

should be more than that, and If the Government does it is they are feeling. Some if there were, what chance would only two-thirds of a column on

"When the worker's interests; and that believe that the United of them ask:

are Hitlerism stand against a leader. a relatively obscure inside page.. This was (1) because the iden overtime, night-work. Sunday States is being swayed by they going to start fighting ship which mobilised the free

this war?" They think peoples of the world behind it? was not a new one, and (2) work and holiday work have all German propaganda and

Yet at this great moment there because Mr. Duff Cooper has to things would be clear and

scem to be only small motives, be classed here, however reluc been vastly increased while pay-that the solution is to in that they would understand only power politics on the old tantly, as a British propagan- ment for these exactions is crease the flow of British everything better if there model.”

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been content with that refuta- tion of the claim. In a spiritęd statement he has underlined a few home truths which Dr. Ley,

discreetly enough, ignored. He points out, for instance, that in Germany there are no longer any independent trades unions or other organisations to protect

forbidden by law. The German worker, Mr. Hicks adds, is now in effect subject to forced labour. This is the consequence of the deliberato policy of producing guns instead of butter the policy so dear to the heart of Field-Marshal Gopring, whose frame suggests that he himself has not had to make choice between the alternatives which he Imposes on others.

Trade unionists in this country may have to reckon nowadays with a rise in prices; but at least they are not in the same case as the Hamburg deckors, who have to work 12 hours a day for 25 marken week on the fortifica- tions of the Western frontier. "It is clear," pungently remarks Mr. Hicks, "that Dr. Lay has cured unemployment.in, the way that Pharaoh cured it when his press-ganga horded

the up Israelites." It is hardly, con-

"constant

endeavour

James picked

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Agate

this out

Comc, Sleep, and with thy

sweet deceiving Lock me in delights awhile; Let some pleasing dreams

beguile:

All my fancles; that from

thence

I may feel an influence, All my powers of care.

bereaving!

Though but a shadow, but a

sliding.

Let me know tome little.

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ceivable that itlerism, with is the Nazi pretension that com- these characteristics, can have pensation for all sacrifice is pro- much attraction for the workersvided by the Strength through Joy movement, Strength, there

in any land; and to crown the may be; but where, ono asks is mockery of Dr. Ley's boasting the joy?'

dist.

As he now prepares to tour the country, one of the anti-war

By Lichty organisations is pressing the

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Secretary of State to give a ruling on whether he, Lord Marley and all other visiting British and French lecturers and speakers shall be required to register as agents of foreign principals, under a law passed last year with the precise inten- tion of attaching, a public label to suspected propagandists.

THERE may be a case for providing Ameri- cans with lectures, but thero is a far better case for providing · them with a lead."The cry for ja lead ́scents, to come out of the long and revealing debato, on neutrality, and in a^^ different.›. senso if is coming from Ameri can business men, who are now [manifesting a scriods doubt. whether a war, boom, 'is to be desired. Most of all it is shown" in the rocurrent talk of the To8- sibility of a mediation move by President Roosevelt.

Americans fool that peace- the right kind of peace with Hitlerism gone and a new world design to work on ought to possible. They are discoura 63. repressed and frustrated because no. design has been drawn.